Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Le nozze di Figaro, K.492
Opera buffa in four acts (1786)
Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro (1784)
Figaro.... José van Dam
Susanna.... Lucia Popp
Il Conte d’Almaviva.... Gabriel Bacquier
La Contessa d’Almaviva.... Gundula Janowitz
Cherubino.... Frederica von Stade
Dr. Bartolo.... Kurt Moll
Marcellina.... Jane Berbié
Don Basilio.... Michel Sénéchal
Antonio.... Jules Bastin
Barbarina.... Danièle Perriers
Don Curzio.... Jacques Loreau
Due Paesane.... Eliane Lublin and Anna Ringart
Stage production by Giorgio Strelher
Orchestra e coro dell’Opéra de Paris
Sir Georg Solti
Opéra Garnier
July 14, 1980
PR
